Study of wind behaviour on high rise buildings

with and without infill walls

By.

MOHAMMED AEJAZ AHMED

(3VY13CCT14)

Under Guidance Prof. SRINIVAS REDDY

Contents:
Introduction
Masonry infill
Basic Terminology
Literature Review
Methodology
Objectives
References

INTRODUCTION
Reinforced concrete frames with masonry infills are a

popular form of construction of high-rise buildings in

urban and semi urban areas around the world. The
term infill frame is used to denote a composite structure
formed by the combination of a moment resisting plane
frame and infill walls. The masonry can be of brick,
concrete units, or stones. The behaviour of masonry in
filled frame structures has been studied in the last four
decades in attempts to develop a rational approach for
design of such frames
a study is undertaken which will involve the finite
element analysis of the behaviour of reinforced
concrete (RC) frame with brick masonry infill.

Cont
Reinforced concrete frames with Masonry in fills are a popular

form of construction of high-rise buildings in urban and semi

urban areas around the world.
The term in filled frame is used to denote a composite structure
formed by the combination of a moment resisting plane frame
and infill walls. The masonry can be of brick, concrete units, or
stones .Usually the RC frame is filled with bricks as non
structural wall for partition of rooms.
The main objective of the study is to investigate the behaviour of
multi-storey, multi-bay with ground soft storey R C frames with
and without infills, also with shear wall at various positions.

Basic Terminology

Assessment of masonry-infilled reinforced concrete

frames and buildings

Masonry together with reinforced concrete is the most
widely used material in civil practice.
masonry used
Structural material
Non-structural material
Until now the effects of the infill on the behavior of the
structures were usually neglected in seismic analysis of
RC/masonry buildings.

Literature Review
A study on cyclic tests on [RC frames with masonry infills

(Murthy and Jain, 2000)]

was carried out with an objective to compare the performance of infill masonry
frames with that of bare frames subjected to reverse cyclic displacement
controlledloading. They concluded that the average initial stiffness of an infill RC
frame is about 4.3 times than that of a bare frame where the masonry is
unreinforced, and about 4.0 times that of bare frame when the masonry is
reinforced. From strength point of view they showed that the unreinforced masonry
infill frames had about 70% greater strength than bare frames; the value was about
50% higher in the case of RC infill frames. They also concluded that the yield
displacement of infill frames is much smaller than that of the bare frame, and hence
showed that the infill frames have considerably greater ductility.

 A project on study the [Effect of infill patterns and

soft storey by (Jaswant N. Arlekar, Sudhir K. Jain and

C.V.R. Murty)] of Department of Civil Engineering,
I.I.T.Kanpur for these study they had taken about Nine
different models of the building are studied. Linear elastic
analysis is performed for the nine models of the
building using ETABS analysis package .They studied
various parameters like storey stiffness, natural period,
lateral 12they came to following conclusion .RC frame
buildings with open first storey are known to perform
poorly during in strong earthquake shaking. The drift and the
strength demands in the first storey columns are very large
for buildings with soft ground storey. It is not very easy to
provide such capacities in the columns of the first storey.

Contn
This hazardous Feature of Indian RC frame buildings needs to be

recognized immediately and necessary measures taken to improve the

performance of the buildings. The open first storey is an important
functional requirement of almost all the urban multi-storey buildings, and
hence, cannot be eliminated. Alternative measures need to be adopted for
this specific situation.

The under-lying principle of any solution to this problem is in (a) increasing

the stiffness's of the first storey such that the first storey is at least 50% as
stiff as the second storey, i.e., soft first storey are to be avoided, and
(b) Providing adequate lateral strength in the first storey.

Contn..
A project on [Seismic assessment of RC Framed buildings

with brick masonry infill's by (Mulgund G.V)]

in this study, five different models of an eight

storeybuilding symmetrical in the plan are considered.

Usually in a building 40% to 60% presence of Masonry infills
(MI) are effective as the remaining portion of the Masonry infills
(MI) are meant for functional purpose such as doors and
windows openings(Pauleyand Priestley, 1992). In this study the
buildings are modelled using 40 % Masonry Infills (MI) but
arranging them in different manner, after performing pushover
analysis it was seen that the performance of fully masonry infill
panels was significantly superior to that of bare frame and soft
storey frames. The present study also demonstrates use of
nonlinear displacement based analysis methods for predicting
performance based seismic evaluation. It has been found that
the IS code provisions do not provide any guidelines for the
analysis and design of RC frames with infill panels. It has been
found that calculation of earthquake forces by treating RC
frames as ordinary frames without regards to infill leads to
underestimation of base shear. The configuration of infill in the

Methodology:
Concrete Frame and Shear Wall Design, 2D and 3D Shear Wall

Configurations, Concrete Frame/ Shear Wall Design Code using ACI

2005.
Modelling & Analysis of building using e-tabs
Analysis of building structure for seismic force or wind force by

manually and using standard codes.

Analysis of building structure with masonry infill shear walls by

referring Indian standard codes

Objectives:
Creation of 3D building model for both elastic and inelastic method of analysis
To perform lateral load analysis on different building models as per code
To study the behaviour of building on influence of masonry infill on the overall

Behaviour of structure when subjected to wind forces.

To study the behaviour of building on influence of concrete shear wall provided in

different position (at Centre, corners in longitudinal and transverse direction) of

the building.
To verify the effect of vertical irregularity on the fundamental natural period of the

building and its effect on performance of the structure during earthquake for
different building models selected.
6) Study the influence of mass irregularity in the building during earthquake

References

Murthy, C.V.R., and Jain, S.K., The Beneficial Influence of Masonry Infill Walls on

the Seismic Performance of RC Framed Buildings, Indian Institute of Technology,

Kanpur, 12thWorld Conference on Earthquake Engineering, January 2000; Auckland,
New Zealand.
Arlekar, N.J., Jain K.S., and Murthy, C.V.R. Seismic Response of RC Frame
Buildings with Soft First Storeys, Proceedings of the CBRI Golden Jubilee

Conference on Natural Hazards in Urban Habitat, New Delhi, 1997.

Mulgund G.V seismic assessment of RC framed buildings with brick masonry
Infills.
Lee, H.S., and Woo, W.S., Effect of masonry infills on seismic performance of a 3-

storey RC frame with non-seismic detailing, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2001.
Murthy, C.V.R., and Jain, S.K., The Beneficial Influence of Masonry Infill Walls
on the Seismic Performance of RC Framed Buildings, Indian Institute of

Technology, Kanpur, 12thWorld Conference on Earthquake Engineering, January

2000; Auckland, NewZealand
Jack Moehle, Yousef Bozorgnia and T.Y.Yong. The Effect of Concrete Core Wall

on Tall Buildings
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